The tax policy implemented by the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Taxation and Customs Policy, Danylo Hetmantsev, is slowing down the Ukrainian economy and, if left unchecked, will lead to its decline in the future. This opinion was expressed in an exclusive interview with UNN by Yana Matviychuk, a volunteer, founder of the ARENA CS creative agency, member of the Young Business Club Board.
Hetmantsev's tax policy will lead to an even greater economic decline. Businesses will go into the shadows, close down, and move to European countries. The goal of the Ukrainian tax authorities' policy is to control, not to grow the economy. And Ukraine needs economic growth today, and the tax policy should be stimulating to open more businesses in Ukraine. More businesses mean more taxes and more resources for defense. And today, the economic policy of Ukrainian officials is aimed at destroying the economy
According to her, Hetmantsev's tax policy is currently slowing down the Ukrainian economy.
"Officials are changing, top managers of various government agencies are resigning, but Hetmantsev is sitting still. Public criticism and protests of individual entrepreneurs have not affected him. That is, someone is very interested in keeping Hetmantsev where he is," Matviychuk said.
In her opinion, businesses do not publicly report pressure from the tax authorities and Hetmantsev not because of fear, but because of despair.
"It seems to me that it's not the fear of tax pressure that is holding people back from openly confronting Hetmantsev - it's the fact that it has turned out to be a waste of time. Hetmantsev is someone's protégé, and public condemnation or dissatisfaction does not solve anything now. Everyone knows about Hetmantsev and his tax "works of art," but we need political will to stop it all," Matviychuk said.
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Co-founder of Concord Bank Olena Sosiedka saidthat she is ready to publicly tell how the head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy, Danylo Hetmantsev, destroyed her bank and called on President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to protect Ukrainian business from Hetmantsev's arbitrariness.
She also suggested that Hetmantsev invite her to a meeting of the parliamentary committee and personally ask her about anything he was interested in.
In addition, Sosiedka said she was ready to speak publicly about how Hetmantsev destroyed Concord Bank at a meeting of the Presidential Council for Business Support. She asks council members Vyacheslav Klymov, Artem Borodatiuk, Oleh Horokhovsky, Kostyantyn Yefymenko, Taras Kitsmey, Oleksandr Konotopsky, and Dmytro Oliynyk, as well as Yulia Svyrydenko to invite her to the meeting.
According to Anatol Amelin, a member of the Board of Fellows at The Aspen Institute Kyiv and director of economic programs at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future, business in Ukraine is already desperate. He is ready to speak publicly about the pressure on entrepreneurs from the tax authorities and security forces.